rasmussen believes this result is significant. it shows governor tropical any 2 points up in florida and it was exactly the reverse before the debecause it. so it wasn't just tied. it was that obama was up by 2 in florida. so it's a 4-points swing in romney's favor. florida, romney can't win without florida. >> those are the two. mitt romney has to win back all the traditionally red states, then he has to win the two that are always battlegrounds. florida's electoral vote count is just as big as new york's. its population continues to grow. megyn: half of the new york population ends up moving to florida. >> reporter: but the idea is you can't win without these two states. so the idea of pulling out of ohio is the same as cedinged the election. we have long expected that romney would do pretty well in florida and that he was under performing in the polls. what people needed was an excuse to vote for him, a reason to feel good about voting for mitt romney. they have serious reservations about the incumbents and what he has done. th